Friday's letters: Waste of money

Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 9:28 p.m.

To the editor: I read the letter by S.J. Brown in Saturday’s Times-News and agreed 100 percent with the comments made. Who’s idea was it to spend $60,000 on a clock tower?

Could the money be used more wisely, say, with creating additional parking? Every time I go to shop in Hendersonville and cannot find a parking spot after say 20 minutes or so, I give up and drive to the mall or Wal-Mart instead, where there is always plenty of free parking. I wouldn’t mind if I had to pay a small fee to park in or near town so I could shop in Hendersonville.

I also agree that whoever created the design for the entrance of Hendersonville (near the Fresh Market) with the mound must have been having a really bad day. It looks terrible and not very pretty for visitors to see as they enter the town.

Phyllis Tompsen

Horse Shoe

Children of nature

To the editor: We are children of nature. We cannot separate ourselves from human nature. As adults, we have a world of characteristics. Some are admirable and some disgraceful. We continually reproduce what we are, in minuscule and in magnificence, in irritation and in incomprehensible incompetence.

As we look at our world, we look at ourselves. We are in the storms and in the floods. We erupt like volcanoes and are as mysterious as the night. We are in the bright sunshine and in the morning dew. The wild beasts call to us, and the little birds sing to us. We do the same for each other.

We wish for peace yet we are at war within ourselves and with each other. We want our politicians to be kind, honest and trustworthy. Yet, we are they with all our greatness and smallness. We are like children in the marketplace. When we weary of playing, we cry for our parents.

Nature is our parent. It is right that we should turn to her. It is there that we find the sanity that we seek, hiding among the thorns, waiting to be discovered, appreciated and allowed to help us to be our best.

Don Keefauver

Hendersonville

Eroding freedoms

To the editor: Unlike letter writer Ken Gaylord, I’m very proud of our sheriff, Charlie McDonald, for taking a stand, along with sheriffs across the country, to support the Constitution. Our forefathers included the Second Amendment for an extreme version of what Mr. Gaylord describes as a “gut check” that “doesn’t align with laws coming from Washington.” Where we “draw that line” must first be answered individually, and then collectively.

We the people cannot continue to blindly follow everything coming from Washington. In baby steps, and with each executive order, our freedoms are slowly being eroded: government-controlled health care, airport searches bordering on molestation, spying on American citizens, use of drones in American airspace, poisoning our water with fluoride, and in New York City, regulating the size of soft drink you can purchase.

Two years ago, I would have considered all this to be conspiracy theory hogwash. But now I’m awake to what’s really going on, and I can’t remain silent. Visit the website www.thrivemovement.com. It includes free access to a documentary, “Thrive,” which will cause you to question what we’ve been sold as the truth.

<p>To the editor: I read the letter by S.J. Brown in Saturday’s Times-News and agreed 100 percent with the comments made. Who’s idea was it to spend $60,000 on a clock tower?</p><p>Could the money be used more wisely, say, with creating additional parking? Every time I go to shop in Hendersonville and cannot find a parking spot after say 20 minutes or so, I give up and drive to the mall or Wal-Mart instead, where there is always plenty of free parking. I wouldn’t mind if I had to pay a small fee to park in or near town so I could shop in Hendersonville.</p><p>I also agree that whoever created the design for the entrance of Hendersonville (near the Fresh Market) with the mound must have been having a really bad day. It looks terrible and not very pretty for visitors to see as they enter the town.</p><p><em>Phyllis Tompsen</em></p><p><em>Horse Shoe</em></p><h3>Children of nature</h3>
<p>To the editor: We are children of nature. We cannot separate ourselves from human nature. As adults, we have a world of characteristics. Some are admirable and some disgraceful. We continually reproduce what we are, in minuscule and in magnificence, in irritation and in incomprehensible incompetence.</p><p>As we look at our world, we look at ourselves. We are in the storms and in the floods. We erupt like volcanoes and are as mysterious as the night. We are in the bright sunshine and in the morning dew. The wild beasts call to us, and the little birds sing to us. We do the same for each other.</p><p>We wish for peace yet we are at war within ourselves and with each other. We want our politicians to be kind, honest and trustworthy. Yet, we are they with all our greatness and smallness. We are like children in the marketplace. When we weary of playing, we cry for our parents.</p><p>Nature is our parent. It is right that we should turn to her. It is there that we find the sanity that we seek, hiding among the thorns, waiting to be discovered, appreciated and allowed to help us to be our best.</p><p><em>Don Keefauver</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>Eroding freedoms</h3>
<p>To the editor: Unlike letter writer Ken Gaylord, I’m very proud of our sheriff, Charlie McDonald, for taking a stand, along with sheriffs across the country, to support the Constitution. Our forefathers included the Second Amendment for an extreme version of what Mr. Gaylord describes as a gut check that doesn’t align with laws coming from Washington. Where we draw that line must first be answered individually, and then collectively.</p><p>We the people cannot continue to blindly follow everything coming from Washington. In baby steps, and with each executive order, our freedoms are slowly being eroded: government-controlled health care, airport searches bordering on molestation, spying on American citizens, use of drones in American airspace, poisoning our water with fluoride, and in New York City, regulating the size of soft drink you can purchase.</p><p>Two years ago, I would have considered all this to be conspiracy theory hogwash. But now I’m awake to what’s really going on, and I can’t remain silent. Visit the website www.thrivemovement.com. It includes free access to a documentary, Thrive, which will cause you to question what we’ve been sold as the truth.</p><p><em>B.C. Phillips</em></p><p><em>Naples</em></p>